Its tempting to just return the 6970 since its causing me so much trouble. The card idles at 300/150 while I'm working on corel painter. This causes artifacts to appear on screen, which makes it difficult and frustrating to paint. When the card is running at full speed, the problem is no longer there. I didn't have this problem with the 4870.

If someone is out there with a bit of time on their hands, I'd appreciate the help.

Its tempting to just return the 6970 since its causing me so much trouble. The card idles at 300/150 while I'm working on corel painter. This causes artifacts to appear on screen, which makes it difficult and frustrating to paint. When the card is running at full speed, the problem is no longer there. I didn't have this problem with the 4870.

If someone is out there with a bit of time on their hands, I'd appreciate the help.

Thanks so much.

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Well, that's what this thread is about. Follow the directions, make your 2d clocks a bit higher and hopefully it will help.

I have to +1 this.
This saved me a major headache.
I had bsod-s because of some ati powerplay trouble or whatever.
i reduced these clocks, and BAM the BSOD IS GONE!!!
Thank you my friend for posting this!!!

I'm pretty sure that this has nothing to do with the bios. I'm under the impression that this might not work with 7 series and/or newer drivers. I have to test things out and I'd like to know if anyone using a pre-7 series card can still do this with newer drivers.

I'm pretty sure that this has nothing to do with the bios. I'm under the impression that this might not work with 7 series and/or newer drivers. I have to test things out and I'd like to know if anyone using a pre-7 series card can still do this with newer drivers.

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I think you are right, i used 12.4 on my 5770 with the file mod and it worked.

And now i have the same problem with the same brand but instead of a 5 i have a 7. LOL

That's what the last few posts above yours have been saying. They changed things with 12.6. Honestly, unless you are having issues there's no way you would want to run your card at 3d clocks all the time anyways.

That's what the last few posts above yours have been saying. They changed things with 12.6. Honestly, unless you are having issues there's no way you would want to run your card at 3d clocks all the time anyways.

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Perfect, I downloading 12.4 WHQL drivers... within an hour I tell if it has worked: D

MSI afterburner can do what you intend to, install it, edit Afterburner.cfg and set UnofficialOverclockingMode=2 , then raise either core or memory clocks by even just 1mhz, that'll have your card at 3d clocks always until you manually click "reset", you can set it to apply on startup.

There's also an easier way to fix your 2d clocks for those who are having issues, afterburner has a 2d/3d profile setting, when you enable UnofficialOverclocking it gets rid of Powerplay and applies anything that is different than the stock clocks by just 1mhz. Was having some flickering issues with my 5850, set it to 360/500 (lowest it'd allow) at 1v, and 3d at 730/1000 with stock voltage, now it's golden.

Hi I accidentally messed up and made it look like this. I know why I messed up now, but I was just wondering what the default values were for Want_0 and Want_1 so that I can re-enter the correct values on another go.

I think I must have done it wrong, as I could not get my clocks to change from 300/150 on the desktop with my 7950 and Catalyst 12.8 drivers. I'm sick of having my desktop randomly spazz out because AMD thinks memory should be underclocked to terribly low speeds when memory doesn't even consume much power. I'm also tired of PowerPlay sending my card to 300/150 with 100% usage during TF2 and other games and creating dumb lag because it believes the game isn't using enough power to run the card at 1GHz or whatever.

It works on latest drivers and 7000 series.
I have a 7970 with 13.3 beta drivers and I increased the minimum clock thanks to this guide.
Now I'm running at 400/300 instead of 300/150, hoping this eliminate the flickering problem.
Anyway... three years? This has been going on for three years and AMD didn't solve it. Pretty disappointing.